Building Mr. Right

[catelin]

Probably spurred on by the approaching holiday, a friend of mine who believes herself to be the consumate matchmaker of all time told me that I needed to send her my laundry list of 20 "ideal man for me" traits. (I suspect she's been reading some sort of go-out-and-git-yerself-a-man book.) So, for the sake of getting her off my back for a while, this is what I sent:

1. Someone as smart or smarter than me. Someone who likes to read more than just the newspaper.

2. Age group: Five years on either side of my own.

3. Someone who is not raising children, who does not want any more children, but who has no problem with mine. (That's usually the dealbreaker.)

4. Someone with no freaky ex's, hang-ups about ex's, or ex's who are not really ex's.

5. No drug users, alcoholics, or men with criminal histories.

6. Someone with an expansive sense of humor.

7. Someone who likes to travel.

8. Someone who is spiritual, but not dogmatically religious. (Pagan tendencies are a definite plus.)

9. Someone who is not in therapy...of any kind.

10. Someone who has a semi-normal relationship with their parents, or who is an amazingly well-adjusted orphan.

11. Someone who likes to be outdoors and do outdoorsy things: e.g. gardening, camping, fishing, swimming, etc.

12. Someone with all their teeth or reasonable facsimiles thereof.

13. Someone who would be willing to relocate. I've moved enough...I'm staying here.

14. Someone who wants to buy an old barn and convert it into a house.

15. Someone who likes to ride horses.

16. Someone who is kind to animals and people.

17. Someone who loves living in the country but likes to visit the city.

18. Some liberal arts background would be nice, but not absolutely necessary.

19. Someone who earns about the same or more than me.

20. Someone who is optimistic and good-natured.

So I'll let her do the looking for me...most days I'd be happy just to find a man to take the trash out every other day...but a gal's gotta have standards. ; )

Comments

[raveen.livejournal.com]

Hee hee... I love your requirement number 12... I dont know if you were being serious or not... but it struck me as funny... keep up the standards... its better to be single than to be constantly in and out of unfulfilling relationships...

Teeth Are Nice

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Ha! I was half-joking, but I do live in an area where toof-less men abound. As for the standards part, there's a good saying in Spanish that I live by:

Mejor sola que mal acompa?ada.

Loosely translated: Better alone than in bad company. : )

Re: Teeth Are Nice

[raveen.livejournal.com]

OK... I see you are from Texas... I assume from a smaller town... I can understand the teeth thing... And I agree with the saying...

Re: Teeth Are Nice

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who dated a tooth impaired hockey player once...he was dubbed the gummi bear. God I dunno why I thought of that....but I'm keeping my eyes open for a good candidate for you!

Re: Teeth Are Nice

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha!! Love that! I don't know what it is about us gals...but every one of the guys we fraternized with at all ended up with some sort of name. Some from my past (a selection from both my own and my friends' beaus--I won't shame myself by telling which are which!):
The Wheezer
Stimpy
P.P. Peque?o
Magnum P.I. (P.I.=Phone Impaired)
Mr. Nostrils
Mister Mafongo
Her Slave Dave
Narcolepsy Goat
Toad

Re: Teeth Are Nice

[warhol.livejournal.com]

oh wow, I was reading these comments and just picked up for the first time that you're actually in Texas .... I guess the first thing I read was your piece about the panhandler in LA, and, well, first impressions die hard. I'd thought you were a native Texan, transplanted. ha!

what part of Texas, if I can be a little nosy?

Re: Teeth Are Nice

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Let's just say that one certain person who sporadically remembers to videotape A Fine Romance for another certain person lives near enough to deliver said videotape "in person" one of these days, should she ever be invited. (Oh, and should she ever have a babysitter for a few hours--can't ever leave that one out.) ; )

Re: Teeth Are Nice

[warhol.livejournal.com]

ah.... I see! practically in my backyard. actually, betcha dollars to dimes I know what @gvtc.com stands for. my mom used to use hctc as her ISP, which is right upriver from you.

the Medina-Kerrville-Comfort corridor is what I usually claim as my stomping grounds.

Re: Teeth Are Nice

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Yep...Green Acres Telephone Company--my wonderful internet provider. You guessed right, though. I'm out here amongst all the lake people and speed freaks, which explains my appalling lack of a social life. ; )